Architecture

The FME Server docs do a good job of telling you how to uninstall and reinstall Server, whatever configuration you choose. However, if you want to migrate from last year's FME Server to the latest release, you have to backup and uninstall everything first. This might work fine for an Express install. But if you have a distributed install of FME Server, the server backup only contains the workspaces, repositories, services and supporting files from your last install. Your previous architecture's configuration isn't stored anywhere. How would you recommend backing up your previous distributed configuration settings (network locations, ports, service account names, etc) to make it easier to install the new release so you have the same configuration as before?

What is the process to access the database on the FME Server just so that we could have a trail of files that users ingested and the outputs that were generated? What are some of the best practices we can implement that can be helpful at the time of audit ?

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this? Yesterday my site access for FME Flow worked fine and today it won’t work at all; I get 404 error. The only thing that seemed to occur between yesterday and today is a Windows Security update. Has anyone else experienced this? I have stopped/started all services; uninstalled the update and restarted the machine but nothing seems to work to get the site back up. I feel like rolling back to a backup is the only option. Thanks!

Hi FME community, I’ve recently been asked if FME Flow supports access via the Microsoft Entra application proxy. Has anyone configured this and can confirm it is supported? I believe it’s very similar to the setup explained in the documentation below, but I haven’t been able to find any documentation referencing the Microsoft Entra application proxy. https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407571916173-Use-a-Reverse-Proxy-with-FME-Server https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407364847885-Using-IIS-and-ARR-as-a-Reverse-Proxy-in-FME-Flow Thanks!

Hi All Currently we are facing some weird issue We have a FME workspace which is running fine in FME Form (2024.2.3 - 64 bit), we have published to FME Flow (2024.2.3) and when we ran the workspace from FME Flow, it started throwing below Ora error (changed ServerName & UserName values to XXX to hide)- “ Error connecting to Oracle database: message was `ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified'. (serverType=`ORACLE8I', serverName=`XXX', userName=`XXX', password=`***', dbname=`') “ I have cross verified the below from my side on FME Flow (Windows Server) and I’m not sure what I’m missing, please suggest how can I overcome this issue in FME Flow. We are not connecting to Oracle using local naming (tnsnames.ora file) instead using LDAP TNSPING ServiceName - resulted correct response Ensured both Oracle Client 32 bit and Oracle Client 64 bit paths are part of ‘Path’ environment variable under system variables FME Flow windows services (Application, Core, Database,

Our Flow instance has more web connections than it should. That’s the result of allowing new connections without peer review.Now, one of our team members is leaving and I’m concerned his workspaces will use connections that won’t transfer. (We use Entra)Is there a way to find all the connections used in various workspaces (scheduled and on-demand apps). I don’t see a view for that in the individual workspaces, or I’d step through them all. Other than downloading and opening each workspace (~100), or deleting the connections to see what happens, is there a way?

When I installed FME Server, it is asking me for the name of the server which I specified. But when I register the license and the engines are started, they are listed as localhost_ENGINE1. Is there a way to change it the server name? What if I wanted to specify the engines to run with the server name, how do I do that at install?

I'm trying to install HighAvailamility setting (2 windows server , Oracle DB) fmeflow2023 windows (fme-flow-2023.0.0.3-b23319-win-x64.exe) Environment: 2 FMEflow servers, Windows server 2022 standard edition system fileshare , Windows server 2022 standard edition fileserver Oracle, Oracle 19c EE with Data guard Installion done fmeflow servers and it doesn't work. Trying to open web page (from local fmeflow server) it just give empty page with Fme:flow image. C:\\Program Files\\FMEFlow\\resources\\logs\\installation , folder is empty. Where to get help ? what is safe.com support address ? Is there any support from safe.com ?

I’m wondering is there a way to add like datetime stamps to the engine result zipped file name? I know this need to be unique but would be nice to add datetime stamps to it while have it remain unique.

Hi. I just did an engine upgrade of my 2024.0.1 Flow instance to the very latest version 2024.2.1 I then created a workspace in Form version 2024.2.0, and tried to upload it to Flow to test deployment parameters. But I get a warning stating, that Flow is older than Form, and the workspace is unrunnable on Flow. This is not good, as an engine upgrade is a nice way to keep Flow running with the latest version without the hazzle of major downtime and reinstallation. Why can’t the Flow 2024 UI handle engine upgrades, and why is my workspace blocked on Flow ?

We have an issue where a Workspace running on FME Server will not acquire an ArcGIS licence and we get the error message "Unable to perform any licensing related tasks. Please check your Esri ArcGIS Compatibility workspace parameter, found in Navigator -> Workspace Parameters -> Translation. This 64-bit version of FME requires ArcGIS Desktop along with 64-bit Background Geoprocessing; ArcGIS Pro; or ArcGIS Enterprise. Refer to this this article http://fme.ly/qua for more details" It seems the issue is related to user accounts and licenses used to run FME and ArcGIS, but I'm having trouble understanding how to set this up. I have tried with ArcGIS PRO 3.0.3 with Single User Advanced license or Named User Advanced License, FME Server 2022.2 with services running as either domain user with Administrator access or as a local user who is member of the local Administrator group. The FME Server and FME desktop versions match, Esri ArcGIS Compatibility is set to ArcGIS Pro. Does anyone know wh

Hi, I have installed ArcGIS Pro 2.9 and FME Workbench 2022 on my computer. I have downloaded arcpy-example.fmw from the website, but I could not get it to run. I changed my setting, so that python compatibility is set to Esri ArcGIS Python 3.7+. I kept getting an ERROR: A compatible ArcGIS application could not be found or is not licensed for Python Compatibility 'Esri ArcGIS Python 3.7+' I am unsure whether I would need an extra step to connect my ArcGIS Pro license to FME. In addition, my ArcGIS Pro is not authorized to work offline. I was wondering whether this was an issue. In addition, inside my ArcGIS, the Data Interoperability extension is grayed out. Is this the reason why I could not use Arcpy in FME desktop? My ArcGIS licensing shows that data interoperability is licensed on my ArcGIS. Do I need to install ArcGIS Data interoperability for Pro for it works? Thank you

We are wondering which version of FME Flow will support ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5. Looking on the history in Notes on FME and Esri Versions and Compatibility I would guess it might be 2025.1?

Hello, I have FME Form and FME Flow 2021.2. Can I still use this version of FME with ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3? Is there a document outlining which versions of FME work with what versions of ArcGIS Enterprise?

Hello Safers, I am planning a FME Flow deployment, and have a question regarding the distributed tier 2 format. I wanted to ask for clarity: In the tier 2 distributed format, is installing both the FME Database and the FME System Share alright on the same machine? Or, is it required that these components are installed on different machines? I would like to install the FME Database on a machine designed for this purpose for our DBA to manage, but didn’t know if I also required another machine for the FME System Share. If that is the case, could I also install the FME System Share on a different drive on the machine FME Flow is installed? I realize this does not mitigate machine-failure, but would mitigate if drive failure occurred, Apologies for the basic question! This my first FME Flow deployment plan. I meant FME Flow System Share…typo in the title! Thanks!

If I’m going to truncating and overwriting a hosted feature service every day in ArcGIS Enterprise is it better to truncate, or drop and create?

Does anyone have a decent and free FME Desktop licence monitoring tool? At the moment, I have very little visibility how much of our licence we're using on a daily basis, and whether we're short of licences some of the time or more regularly. Two options I have tried, neither of which is ideal: Using the logfile on the licence server. This gives all the logins and logouts, and I assume even the attempts. But I don't have direct access to this file, so I need my IT department to send it to me on a regular basis. Plus, the first few lines of the logfile clearly state that it's not recommended for usage monitoring. The second option is described in https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Desktop_Admin_Guide/FMEInstallation/Monitoring_Floating_License_Use.htm , where you set up a lmutil command. This I can put in a batch file, which I can run at regular intervals, and then spits out a time-stamped text file. It kind of works, but as it's on my machine, it only works wh

In FME(R) 2024.1.1.0 (20240729 - Build 24619 - WIN64) when connecting to FME Flow (same build), the download will only show the first 100 workspaces in a repository, any thoughts on why or workaround ? I know I can use the Flow UI to download, but using Form is way more efficient.

Hello FME Community users, I am trying to upgrade FME FLow from 2024.0.3 to 2024.2.1. I looked into this article https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/AdminGuide/Upgrade-in-Place-Same-Machine.htm Just wondering if there is a better compared to install/uninstall as mentioned above. Such as done on ESRI side.

I created an FME Flow cleanup task for a folder under Resources/Temp. However, cleanup isn’t happening on my test folder because FME Flow isn't resolving to the correct path for the FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP parameter. The path on the server is D:\ProgramData\Safe Software\FMEFlow\resources\temp\, which matches the path for the FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP parameter listed in the fmeServerConfig.txt file. The error in the system cleanup log states “Path not found for system cleanup:D:\ProgramData\Safe Software\FMEFlow\resources\system\temp\AA_Test.” - same but with “system” folder added in the path. Should I be using a different parameter? I'm unclear why the path for FME_SHAREDRESOURCE_TEMP is different in the system cleanup task from what is listed in fmeServerConfig.txt file.

We are trying to update our on-prem FLOW (from version 2023.2) and I have successfully created the backup but am unable to determine the location of where the file was saved to. The FLOW interface does not provide any clues as it does not indicate the target directoy (please see attached screen grab). And doing a seach on my C and D drives with keyword ‘.fsconfig’ yelds no results. Where does the backup file get saved to? Thanks!

We have a server running many jobs and one of them normally runs successfully and a log can be reviewed but at other times the job fails and when i access it i get the message Error: The log file for job ID "######" does not exist. I’ve seen the post in FME Server 2019 Error: The log file for job ID "2613" does not exist and we have plenty of disk space, the job frequently works successfully, other jobs are still creating log files. I’ve checked all the suggestions in that post. The failed job is recorded as running for a couple of seconds but without the log I have no insight into why it is failing

We currently run all our FME jobs as an AD service account. Unless a workspace uses SQL Authentication for DB access, all DB access occurs as this service account. This has turned into a security concern and I’m sure others have dealt with this. Which of the following is the best solution or what have I missed? It sounds like the new FME licensing allows unlimited engines. Could we create a new engine for each workspace and run it as the service account with DB access, and access to network shares? Kindly point me to steps to do this. Group Managed Service Accounts - can a FME workspace run as a gMSA? Use SQL Authentication instead of Windows Authentication for DB access. I understand FME encrypts passwords but we’d still use the FME service account to access a ton of resources. How do others handle FME jobs and access to resources?

In order to pull data from one of our clients’ data repositories, we are using a custom Python SDK that they have provided. Installation and testing went smoothly for use with FME Form, but no so well with FME Flow. For FME Form, I used fme.exe python -m pip install. For FME Flow, I’ve tried navigating to Resouces>Engine>Plugins>Python>python311 and uploading the directories there, I’ve tried running fme.exe python -m pip install with the target directory set the FME Flow Resouces\Engine\Plugins\Python\python311. No matter what I do, my transformer fails with the following errors: Python Exception <ModuleNotFoundError>: No module named xxxx Any suggestions?

Hello, I am new to administering FLOW. We actually have just purchased the product and are in the process of setting everything up, and learning. I would like to integrate SAML with FLOW. It is straightforward enough with the ability to use the metadata URL or import from a xml file. All of that and actually enabling SAML under User Management was quite straightforward. We are a huge IT shop and I have to submit tickets to another department to have the applications integrated with ADFS. The software was installed as port 8080, and is accessed through an F5 (load balancer). After install, I had the F5 team set up listening on port 8080 and the software is accessible via the F5 VIP and internally. All that said, there have been a few issues. Initially the software was passing communication for ADFS over http, because that is how it was setup. So this was expected. The problem there, is the ADFS console would not allow http to be used, it only allows https. I have since used a FME articl